My work has grown out of 33 years of professional painting. I have shown and sold my work in galleries since the late 1980s. I also owned and operated my own gallery for eight years where my paintings were featured along with other Arizona artists. My art was featured in the May 2009 issue of Southwest Art in a cover piece describing contemporary modern artists. Most of my work is contemporary landscape in oil and acrylic, however, I also create abstracts and southwestern figurative pieces based on rock art. My latest series of landscape painting is done in a vivid palette with acrylic paint. I like to keep my pieces relatively simple stressing composition and color. My work can be seen at www.stitesbiz.com and www.facebook.com/ramonastitesart